“You let your heart go a bit / Like a dog that you call back when he wanders off.”

— Jean-Michel Maulpoix, from “From all over, she flows…”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)

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“allow the pieces to fall apart no matter how rough it feels, allow what doesn’t want to stick to crumble away beautifully, allow what has no desire to stay to find a home elsewhere, allow the energy of everything shifting from you to create space for everything that you need.”

— iambrillyant

“And if the angel says: Do you know life? / Then I must say: Life devours”

— — Rainer Maria Rilke, Irschenhausen, September 1914, Poems to Night, tr. Will Stone

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

i want all the things i want. i don’t cry anymore. it is what it is.

— Ollie Schminkey, from "the scab to peel back," Dead Dad Jokes

Mary Oliver, from “Mockingbirds”, Devotions

Kyla Jamieson, “I Need A Poem,” in Body Count [ID in ALT]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (via quotespile)

When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives.

— Lauren Eden

“‘Nothing I didn’t already know, deep down.’”

—

Dante Medema, from The Truth Project

“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Good Bones and Simple Murders; “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women,”